Farmers Cooperative Market of East Liberty for Saturday April 17th I want to confirm that Peter Williams, the owner of Kew Park Estate Coffee Farm will be visiting the market this Saturday. He will be hanging out at the coffee bar- talking about the coffee farm and how he grows his world class coffee using sustainable methods. We will brewing some Kew Park coffee using a French press and passing out free samples. If you are interested in learning more about Kew Park Estate Coffee Farm, check out some of the links below. See you at the market David Lagnese A National Geographic article about using birds to eat insects versus using pesticides. Kew Park is referenced in the article. The farm regularly has scientists in residence from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center to study how to best attract birds that will eat the insects. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080826-jamaica-coffee-birds-... A more recent paper prepared by the scientists from the Smithsonian. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v <http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:GQ44e0EbTwcJ:www.humboldt.edu/%7Emdj6/res/pubs/Johnson_etal_2010.pdf+Pest+reduction+services+by+birds+in+shade+and+sun+coffee+in+Jamaica&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgVtkt5oeX-naMvOK2QKh7oNWNA9IeGQDx8yIPRaeTc0esKqlTMFIgeoF4Ve06pTQ8Qy6PYNvZzvMR6MdC6WDzsCsJJ5rAjYcD95UyLSfTCQrx3Yap5YXRCraR9UejxeQGASvyK&sig=AHIEtbQZjJ02fZ4NgPxdMMZ1muzHe6vXRQ> &q=cache:GQ44e0EbTwcJ:www.humboldt.edu/%7Emdj6/res/pubs/Johnson_etal_2010.pdf+Pest+reduction+services+by+birds+in+shade+and+sun+coffee+in+Jamaica&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgVtkt5oeX-naMvOK2QKh7oNWNA9IeGQDx8yIPRaeTc0esKqlTMFIgeoF4Ve06pTQ8Qy6PYNvZzvMR6MdC6WDzsCsJJ5rAjYcD95UyLSfTCQrx3Yap5YXRCraR9UejxeQGASvyK&sig=AHIEtbQZjJ02fZ4NgPxdMMZ1muzHe6vXRQ If you click around on this you can see some cool little video snippets of the Kew Park Farm. Many things besides coffee is grown on the farm. For example they grow chickens and use the manure to fertilize the coffee. http://www.quinessence.com/hydrosols_videos/watch-video/UlejJHRM00g/kewparkd... The Farmers’ Cooperative Market of East Liberty is located at 344 North Sheridan Ave., adjacent to the Home Depot parking lot. The market operates year round- and is open from 5 AM until 12 Noon every Saturday of the year. 131.JPG Peter and his wife Gina on the farm in Westmoreland, Jamaica